Don't Enjoy Coding(sayeku.com)
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Don't Enjoy Coding
https://www.sayeku.com/code/dont-love-the-tasks-of-your-work/
2 comments
It's hyperbolic for humor, the main point is after the <hr/>
"On a more serious note, I think we should stop loving the tools and start loving the act of slaying problems. In any profitable monetized project, there is a very human customer pain that is worth addressing. We should care about the bigger human pain, and work towards reducing it. A loose analogy: A surgeon who loves the task of suturing may extend his work past the surgical incision. His goal is not to love cutting and stitching, it’s to improve patients’ lives. Similarly, the tasks of any developer job converge on an abstract user problem. We should reward progress towards fixing large problems not the mere completion of micro tasks."
"On a more serious note, I think we should stop loving the tools and start loving the act of slaying problems. In any profitable monetized project, there is a very human customer pain that is worth addressing. We should care about the bigger human pain, and work towards reducing it. A loose analogy: A surgeon who loves the task of suturing may extend his work past the surgical incision. His goal is not to love cutting and stitching, it’s to improve patients’ lives. Similarly, the tasks of any developer job converge on an abstract user problem. We should reward progress towards fixing large problems not the mere completion of micro tasks."
You should enjoy programming as you will be miserable otherwise. You don’t have to enjoy all parts of the job, that is life.
Overthinking stuff on paper can slow you down too. Some times it’s a good idea.